Free-To-Air
Posted on November 7, 2005
I can’t believe how easy it is to get Free-To-Air TV (or in other words almost free commercial TV). You need to buy FTA satellite receiver that cost ~200$ and cheap antenna. Then you just upload small program over a null-modem to get almost every channel including PPVs.
With Bell and Videotron you have to pay 30 to 40$ every month and you only get a fraction of available channels. (well you also can watch Canadian TV, but I guess it depends on the satellite)
Strange eh? If it is so easy decrypt satellite signal why Satellite TV uses such an easy to break encryption? There are quite a lot of simple encryption algorithms that can be easily implemented for slow CPU’s of the receiver and still provide adequate security for decades.
P.S Now back to COMP335 assignment;-)
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